CHAPTER 9THE LAST COUNTRY
“Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do.… You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”
—John Lennon, songwriter, “Imagine”
National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national zeal is a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the unimaginable breadth of the universe of celestial gases, black holes, dark matter, stars, planets, galaxies, quasars, and so forth.
With due respect to the great musical artist John Lennon, imagining there are no countries is hard to do. However, I have imagined it, and I’m not the only one. On September 21, 1987, ...
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